Vietnam warns of virus risk as govt reports 45 new Covid-19 cases - highest number in months and 2,910 in total

A women holds an umbrella as she walks for exercise at a park in Hanoi. Vietnam recorded another 45 new cases of Covid-19 infection on Thursday (April 29) night, including six locally transmitted and 39 imported, raising the total confirmed cases in the country to 2,910, according to the country's Ministry of Health. - AFP

HANOI, April 30 (Xinhua): Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam warned the country faces a "very high” threat of a new outbreak after reporting its first domestic virus case in a month earlier this week, as the Covid-19 pandemic is sweeping past the South-East Asian region in a new wave.

Vu added that the Vietnamese government is very concerned concerned over possible new outbreaks tied to visitors from abroad.